ok speaking of which, I’m curious for thoughts on what would make for the best Trump legal procedural/heist film. Vote 🗳️: (A) Coffee County election data heist (B) Attempted 2020 election heist (C) Classified documents heist (D) DOGE federal government heist bsky.app/profile/anna... - ThreadSky

annabower.bsky.social • 8 days ago

ok speaking of which, I’m curious for thoughts on what would make for the best Trump legal procedural/heist film. Vote 🗳️:

(A) Coffee County election data heist
(B) Attempted 2020 election heist
(C) Classified documents heist
(D) DOGE federal government heist

https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3lotejef6jc2s

Reposted from Anna Bower

ok but for real this movie was a fun watch, highly recommend for people (me) who like movies about (a) elections, (b) legal procedure, (c) Bravo-level interpersonal drama

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muellershewrote.com•8 days ago

That classified documents shit. Especially the part where they tried to flood the server room by draining the pool into it. But it would be more a comedy of errors than a thriller.

annabower.bsky.social•8 days ago

Right I think you’d have to do all of these as a comedy in the vein of, like, the Big Short

fanofwalt.bsky.social•8 days ago

The Producers

bskwitter.bsky.social•8 days ago

COEN BROTHERS!!!

craigwinston.bsky.social•8 days ago

Death of Stalin homage? or more In the Loop?

The problem with the Armando Iannucci approach is the assumption that there is sanity in the world and thus the satire and criticism hits harder.
People respond too quickly to keep up.

charlotteclymer.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yeah, unpopular opinion: for all of McKay's good and interesting writing, I find his cynicism off-putting. The ironic detachment gets to be a bit much.

Also, not that y'all asked, but a really great conclave drama is "Habemus Papam" (2011, dir. Nanni Moretti). Unexpectedly hilarious.

annabower.bsky.social•8 days ago

I get that re: McKay! I think the mood board I have in mind for these films would be like a combo of the Big Short, Ocean’s 11, The Cohen Brothers, the Death of Stalin, The Social Network, etc.

Thanks for the pope movie rec!

muellershewrote.com•8 days ago

I'm feeling like Cedar Rapids or Best in Show.

jnklz.bsky.social•8 days ago

As a person who grew up in Cedar Rapids and once owned show dogs, all I can say is HOW COULD YOU mention these two movies in the same sentence?!

Best in Show obviously wins.

choff22.bsky.social•8 days ago

Burn After Reading vibes

lincolnskayak.bsky.social•8 days ago

I’m feeling Jojo Rabbit

mpress.bsky.social•8 days ago

Best in Show wins every time.

Not sure what the convo is here, but all I need to read is Best in Show and I get giddy.

andreon2wheels.bsky.social•8 days ago

Best in How is such a gem

smwoodruff.bsky.social•8 days ago

If you get hungry,
Eat something!
That’s my vote

carolnorris.bsky.social•8 days ago

Best in Show always.

thelibbiegrant.bsky.social•8 days ago

I used to be a show dog handler and Best in Show is scarily accurate in its depiction of that weird little micro-culture.

callmelg.bsky.social•8 days ago

Or more along the style of “Airplane!”

supernovaskr.bsky.social•8 days ago

Go with Guest, 'cause he's the best!

robertmockingbird.bsky.social•8 days ago

Starting:

Stephen Miller as Parker Posey.

Trump’s Nuts as her husband.

Busy Bee as Due Process.

Their dog Beatrice as America.

hopster51.bsky.social•8 days ago

Coen

annabower.bsky.social•8 days ago

*coen brothers

grumpykelson.bsky.social•8 days ago

No question that Burn After Reading is the template for this new genre of Trump criming.

paulhoffman.bsky.social•8 days ago

I recommend the ecclesiastical fashion show scene in Fellini's Roma – it culminates in something almost hallucinatory

fosterandflourish.bsky.social•8 days ago

I would vote for the Danny McBride/Righteous Gemstone production team for a totally irreverent and madcap documents scandal satire.

northofthe49th.bsky.social•8 days ago

📌

mampdx.bsky.social•8 days ago

Just watched "We Have a Pope." A lovely film, and I would pay good money to watch a College of Cardinals volleyball competition.

mampdx.bsky.social•8 days ago

Oo, thanks for that recc! Appears to be free on Tubi.

fiona-webster22.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes, he can be very cynical. But Don't Look Up wasn't cynical: it was hilarious satire with a sweet heart of gold.

unachronicler.bsky.social•8 days ago

scooby doo scene of moving the boxes from one room to another while the fbi search is underway

jhollinrake.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can there be a moat? A shark moat.

bdkakak4.bsky.social•8 days ago

Should be the next Coen brothers film.

jimsteele.bsky.social•8 days ago

Nah. Mel Brooks.

notbillsandweg.bsky.social•8 days ago

John Leguizamo & Michael Peña, Josh Brolin as 45, Danny deVito as Rudy G,…

jeffmay.bsky.social•8 days ago

I’d watch that!

logeiongklat.bsky.social•8 days ago

This. Every single timeline is just too dumb to make a good plot.

m-ia.bsky.social•8 days ago

partiallyconvinced.bsky.social•8 days ago

I can see it now. Walt and the Pool Boy with Army surplus night googles on, going through the underground tunnels of Mar-a-Lago with flashlights. Mission Impossible theme music plays. Oscar worthy.

sleepypeep.bsky.social•8 days ago

The outcome of it all is 100% absurdist comedy. Maybe absurdist Tragicomedy.

biggoldmachine.bsky.social•8 days ago

Best movie would be Coffee County, w John Goodman and Kathy Bates

incompetentweiner.bsky.social•8 days ago

Trump passing his dementia test heist

elmohugenburg.bsky.social•8 days ago

The best dark comedy would be the docs. Best slapstick is 100% Coffee County. Drama? B. The DOGE case would be a C- episode of Big Bang Theory, which makes it an F on a normal scale.

jggoddard.bsky.social•8 days ago

A movie series in the order you presented

haydihidiho.bsky.social•8 days ago

I don’t ever want to watch a movie about him. When he’s gone, I never want to think about him again. Unfortunately, that won’t be possible.

annabower.bsky.social•8 days ago

I don’t think any of these movies would really be about Trump so much as they’d be about Trumpworld/the people around him. He’d of course be on the periphery but I don’t think a movie focused on Trump as a character would be very interesting (does he even have an interior life…?)

tonycava.bsky.social•8 days ago

B me

tonycava.bsky.social•8 days ago

I’m pitching:
CRYPTO-HOES, the selling of the Trump Crime family’s vapor “money”.

robert-e-630.bsky.social•8 days ago

DOGE mini series on HBO - made by the people who made Chernobyl

berbanplanning.bsky.social•8 days ago

Classified documents hands down.

“By the 20th box he said just put the rest of them in the bathroom.”

A scene devoted to the boxes in the bathroom is something I need.

dkmarsh.bsky.social•8 days ago

Well...the classified document heist has "that draining the pool into the computer room to destroy the security footage" scene—a nice update of the Rosemary Woods tape erasure technique...

stillngb.bsky.social•8 days ago

@emptywheel.bsky.social?

hahnyock.bsky.social•8 days ago

Zapruder sequel.

changegamer.bsky.social•8 days ago

Work them all in like a dateline murder confessional with cuts of Trump in an orange jumpsuit still slinging the same ridiculous stuff, but her emails witch hunt Biden lunatic left low iq illegals blah blah blah.
Final cut of President AOC accepting the election to her second term
Cue tears

johnroyal.bsky.social•8 days ago

Coffee County would be a great Coen Brothers movie.

annabower.bsky.social•8 days ago

RIGHT??

nacorwin.bsky.social•8 days ago

I vote option A

kahryn80.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'm caught between (C) as a teen-comedy of errors (al la week end at Bernies) of the haplessness of hiding TOP Secret stuff around Mar-A-Lardo to defeat FBI & Subpoena!

or

(D) the Cat&Mouse thriller hijinks of DOGE evil minded criminals trying to outrun de Laws of the US on destruction spree!

eawinick.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can I suggest an election-adjacent (E) Giuliani v Freeman/Moss?

hyoscine.bsky.social•8 days ago

Spy movie about a white house plumber who finds something incredibly sensitive clogging a toilet

hyoscine.bsky.social•8 days ago

Or the plumber finds hard evidence that Trump works for Russia and then has to go on the run

hyoscine.bsky.social•8 days ago

The NOC list from Mission Impossible. In fact, it's just MI but it starts with a clogged toilet instead of a vault heist. And there aren't high-speed trains so that scene is on an Amtrak regional. And the helicopter crashes into a plane at DCA so doesn't show up.

anaphoristand.bsky.social•8 days ago

(B) because it's the most widely rewritten history societally in need of righting (with the widest cast of coconspirators long overdue for pariah status)

https://bsky.app/profile/schooley.bsky.social/post/3lot7xhmdek2b

ericjmorey.com•8 days ago

My Congressional House Representative (along with 139 others in the House and 8 in the Senate) voted to throw out the votes of the the American people and overthrow Biden's legitimately won election to the Presidency.

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/LAWMAKERS/xegpbedzdvq/

anaphoristand.bsky.social•8 days ago

Every one of the 147 deserves Hollywood villain immortality.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html

tempestost.bsky.social•8 days ago

4 down 3 from right🤡

suprmomcat.bsky.social•7 days ago

Pilot movie: Law and Order: SVU: DC

markholliday.bsky.social•8 days ago

All The President's Mens Rea

majdefcon1.bsky.social•8 days ago

I would make it a Netflix series- each season is a different heist/crime.

craigwinston.bsky.social•8 days ago

Who would play Sidney Powell, or Rudy G or Mark Meadows, or Jenna Ellis?

craigwinston.bsky.social•8 days ago

Need to add the Italians and the ghost of Hugo Chavez into this.

justplantsplz.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can you get Quentin Tarantino to do something revengeful ? You know, in the spirit of Django.

stillngb.bsky.social•8 days ago

Or Inglorious Bastards… 🤔

hahnyock.bsky.social•8 days ago

Mr. Blonde

joepositive.wtf•8 days ago

C) classified documents heist, a la mode de Burn After Reading

mosshawk2.bsky.social•8 days ago

At first I said DOGE, but the classified documents could have an "all the president's men" flavor.

mike94.bsky.social•8 days ago

B and C; B being watergate on crack leading to newly invented immunity, C being filmed in the style of Beverly Hillbillies

mike94.bsky.social•8 days ago

B could also include a scene where the force-ghost of Nixon goes “h-wh-HUH!!! 😱” as the July 1 holding comes out

djangobde.bsky.social•8 days ago

I just watched it last night. The cast was superb.

pcunited.bsky.social•8 days ago

The classified documents case would be my first choice.

mariepluscats.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'd be most excited about D, but I bet B would be fun too

C would probably be a snooze I don't think there was much action

fiona-webster22.bsky.social•8 days ago

Either B or C. B has the Giuliani & Sidney Powell hijinks, but C has the funny physical antics like trying to flood the server & moving boxes around.

jaydub147.bsky.social•8 days ago

At this point, I think it needs to be a series that covers all of it. At least from Trump's perspective, the decisions seem to have been made so capriciously that it could all fit in one product.

If I had to pick one, (A) Coffee County done as a farce.

annabower.bsky.social•8 days ago

Coffee County done as farce/over-the-top dramedy is my pick ✅

gregoryfsmith.bsky.social•8 days ago

C) so much material there

jamescounihan.bsky.social•8 days ago

as long as the perps end up in pine boxes, I'm good with it

momfordemocracy.bsky.social•8 days ago

C. I think there are probably some shocking hidden facts.

cielwilliams.bsky.social•8 days ago

With that guy, truth is crazier than any fiction writer can imagine. A docudrama about Doge, if released fairly quickly, would be great.

ladiaz.bsky.social•8 days ago

honestly finding this exercise distasteful. normalizing by making it entertainment, isn't that an msm thing? if anything, a documentary, true crime, or a ken burns miniseries laying out ALL the high crimes and misdemeanors, ALL the grift, inhumanity and malice, and ALL the complicit enablers.

skiles.bsky.social•8 days ago

B, just because I want to see Rudy Giuliani played by Steve Buscemi

catfrat.bsky.social•8 days ago

That is an inspired casting choice

dogfanatic.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm torn between B and D. Some many crimes so few words in film titles.

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